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Patented Aug. 6, 1889.

' Hill] I! IIHIIII UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAIWI BUNTING, JR, OF FLUSIIING, ASSIGNOR TO THE MEYER-SNIFFIN COMPANY, (LIMITED) OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

- WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,371, dated August 6, 1889.

Application filed November 30, 1888. Serial No. 292,175. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- thereat; and Fig. 5 is a similar section taken Be it known that I, \VILLIAM BUNTING, Jr., at the line 0c of Fig, 1, viewed in the direca citizen of the United States, and a resident tion indicated by the arrow at said line. of Flushing, in the county of Queens and In the several views the same .parts will be Stateof New York, haveinvented certain new found designated by the same numerals of and useful Improvements in ater-Closets, reference. of which the following is a specification. The water-closet is made of a single piece My invention relates more particularly to of porcelain or earthenware, and consists, that class of water-closets shown in the Letprimarily, of a bowl or basin 2, a vertical I0 ters Patent No. 253,152, dated January 31, trunk or chamber 8, a trap at, and an outlet 5. 1882, granted to Daniel T. Bostel, and also The bottom of the bowl is made dishing, as shown in the Letters Patent No. 307,520, seen at 6, to hold a small body of water at all granted to me on the 4th of November, 1884. times, and the top of the bowl is provided To water-closets of the construction shown in with a flushing-rim 7, having a slot 8 at the [5 said patents (which I may remark have an front of the bowl and a series of perforations extensive sale) there exists only one serious 9 around each side of the bowl for the disobjectionnamely, the liability of breakage charge of the flushing-water. The. trunk is of the projecting inlet-nozzles E E (see said located at the rear of the closet and about patents) both in transportation of the fixture centrally of the bowl. It is curved or bent 2e and in handling in setting the same up for forward slightly at its upper end, and is use. These inlet-nozzles E E are made sepaformed with an opening 10, through which rate from the bowl, and are subsequently access maybe obtained to the trunk and trap, I joined thereto at one end in the process of and through which these portions may be producing the finished structure. Being conventilated by means of the hollow cover 11,

25 neoted at one end only, they necessarily have made the subject of my patent aforesaid.

but little support and are comparatively Formed integral with the bowl and the upeasily detached or stripped from the bowl. per portion of the trunk are conduits 12 12, Plumbers frequently break off these nozzles which extend rearwardly from the bowl to a in connecting to them the branch pipes G G, vertically-arranged inlet-nozzle 13, formed at 0 leading from the supply-pipe F, thus renderthe upper end of the trunk about centrally of ing the closet useless and giving considerable the structure lengthwise. These conduits are annoyance. arranged one on each side of the trunk, and

My invention has for its object to improve converging meet at the inlet nozzle 13 at the this species of water-closet, and not only avoid rear of the closet. The forward ends of the con- 3 5 the objection hitherto urged against the same, duits communicate with the flushing-rim 7 011 8 5 but at the 7 same time effect a considerable each side of the center at the rear of the bowl, saving in cost therein; and to these main ends and the rearwardly-extendin g portions are my invention consists in the features of conpreferably depressed slightly, as shown, in orstruction hereinafter more fully described, der that the ventilating-cover 11 may not pro- 0 and particularly pointed out in the appended ject above the plane of the bowl and interfere claims. with the proper fitting of the seat and wood- In the drawings accompanying this specifiwork surrounding the closet. The passagecation and forming a part thereof, Figure 1 ways in the conduits are shown in dotted is a top or plan View of a water-closet emlines at Fig. 1. 45 bracing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a cen- The conduits, it will be seen, are made bulg- 9 5 tral vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a ing or in relief exteriorly, and are joined for side elevation thereof, with the ventilatingtheir full length to the bowl and the trunk cover in place. Fig. at is a vertical section along the irregular line 14, and finally vanish taken at the line y y of Fig. 1, with the cover into the inlet-nozzle on opposite sides thereof. 50 011 and looking in the direction of the arrow In addition to the union along the line 14 the ICC conduits are united to the bowl and the trunk and to each other by a horizontally-arranged stay or web 15, as seen at Fig. 1.

The inlet-nozzle is preferably arranged to terminate in a vertical direction to save the expense of a bend from the usual vertical supply pipe from the flushing-tank. The bore of the inlet-nozzle is curved from near its upper end to terminate in a horizontal direction at the junction of the horizontally-arranged conduits. From the bottom of said inlet-nozzle extend downwardly in an oblique direction one or more perforations 16, which during the flushing operation emit a stream or streams against the inner vertical wall of the trunk for the purpose of removing any light pieces of paper which may have clung thereto, and which also after the cessation of the flushing operation serve to carry off any surplus water in the conduits and inlet-nozzle.

To the upper end of the inlet-nozzle is connected by the coupling shown, or by any other suitable means, the supply-pipe 17, which, as usual, is attached to the flushing tank or other source of water-supply.

In the operation of the closet the flushingwater descending through the supply-pipe enters the inlet-nozzle and passes thence into the conduits or channels 12 12 on either side, from which the twoseparatebodies of water are directed into the flushing-rim 7, one 011 each side, and rushing around the same are caused to meet at the front of the bowl. During the passage of the water round the flushing-rim small streams are discharged through the perforations 9 to wash down the walls of the bowl; but the bulk'of the water is discharged at the slot 8, and by its force and direction the contents of the receiver or dish 6 are carried rearwardly into the trunk through the trap and the outlet to the sewer or waste c011- nections.

It will be seen that by my invention is provided a closet of the washout side-delivery type, in which the flushing-rim inlets and branches are made of apiece or integral with the bowl and trunk and extend rearwardly around the opening in the trunk to the inlet from the supply-pipe, whereby a structure of great strength is produced, and one in which the objections made to prior closets of this description are wholly obviated.

It will be seen,furthermore, that by making the prior inlet nozzles and branches one and the same piece, and forming them integral or en masse with the bowl and trunk, instead of making two projecting inlet-nozzles, and uniting these in the fitting up of the closet by metallic connections or branches and bends,

. I am not only enabled to avoid the expense of making two connections, but also the considerable expense of the metallic fittings which must accompany such prior construction of closets. I

If desired, the inlet-nozzle may be arranged to terminate in a horizontal direction, and other variations may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a water-closet having a bowl provided with a flushing-rim, and having also a trunk, the two rearwardly-projecting conduits 12, formed integral or of a piece with the bowl and trunk, communicating with the flushingrim on opposite sides and extending therefrom around the trunk to a common inletnozzle, substantially as shown and described.

2. 1n awater-closet having a bowl provided with a flushing-rim, and having also an open trunk, the two rearwardly-proj ectin g conduits 12, formed integral or of a piece with the bowl and trunk, communicating with the flushing-rim on opposite sides, extending therefrom around the trunk-opening to a common inlet-nozzle, and connected to each other at the front side of said opening by a web or ligament 15 made integral therewith, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a water-closet having a bowl provided with a flushing-rim, and having also a trunk, the two rearwardly-projecting conduits 12, joined to the bowl and the trunk, and communicating with the flushing-rim on opposite sides, and extending to and communicating with a vertically-terminating inlet-nozzle, the bowl, the flushing-rim, the trunk, the conduits, and the inlet being all made from a single piece of earthenware, substantially as shown and described.

4. A water-closet consisting of a bowl provided with afiushing-rim and 'a dish or basin, a Vertical trunk in rear of the bowl, two rearwardly-projecting conduits formed integral with the bowl and trunk and extending from the flushing-rim on opposite sides, and a vertically-terminating inlet-nozzle at the junction of said conduits provided with one or' more perforations extending to the inner vertical wall of the trunk above the plane'of the bowls dish, whereby a stream or streams of water maybe discharged upon said wall for the purpose of removing any matter which in the washout of the basin may have lodged thereon, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 24th day of November, A. D. 1888.

WILLIAM BUNTING, JR.

itnesses:

, JACOB FELBEL,

MARTIN LAYDEN. 

